Better than Krashesky w/Preckwinkle: Berkowitz w/David Hoffman discussing National Issues and politics on Cable in Chicago and Aurora; also streaming
Jeff Berkowitz: $500,000? One million? Two million? Give me a ballpark [of your net worth].
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Jeff Berkowitz: Card Check, yes or no?
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Jeff Berkowitz: So, the answer is you’re persuadable. If [President Obama] answered those questions in a good way, in a way that is persuasive to you- gave you the information, you’re going with President Obama, additional troops for Afghanistan?
David Hoffman [U. S. Senate Candidate in the 2010 Democratic Primary]: I am persuadable but I’m not promising thatI would because I think that we need to be hesitant before we put in our troops anywhere and before...
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David Hoffman: …We should turn the page on the corrupt politics and cozy relationships of the past. We need to nominate a candidate who doesn’t have ties to those things. Every candidate should make their case based on that standard. I’m going to make that case.
Jeff Berkowitz: Are you saying Giannoulias has mob ties?
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Jeff Berkowitz: But, with that provision, you would have supported NAFTA at the time?
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The "Public Affairs," show featuring U. S. Senate Candidate David Hoffman (D-Chicago) is airing
(1) throughout the City of Chicago tonight, Sep. 28, at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21(CANTV, aka Chicago Access Network TV) and
(2) on cable in Aurora and surrounding areas at 7:30 pm on ACTV-10. The Aurora station, ACTV-10, aka Aurora Community Television, Comcast Cable Ch. 10, reaches all of Aurora, Bristol, Big Rock and parts of Oswego, Sandwich, Sugar Grove and Montgomery.
This evening's "Public Affairs," show is perhaps the most in-depth TV interview to date of U. S. Senate Candidate Hoffman, who previously was an Ass't U. S. Attorney (in Chicago) for seven years and most recently was known as the "very independent," Inspector General in the City of Chicago.
After graduating from Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School, Hoffman clerked for Judge Dennis Jacobs on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and was one of 27 individuals to be selected from law school graduates across the country to clerk at the U. S. Supreme Court (for Chief Justice Rehnquist). After his clerkships, U. S. Senate Candidate Hoffman (D-Chicago) worked in private practice for a year before joining the U. S. Attorney's office in Chicago. David Hoffman grew up in the Chicago Metro area and graduated from New Trier High School on Chicago's North Shore.
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For more about tonight's show, including partial transcipts and links to other transcripts and to watch the show on your computer, please go here.
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For yet another partial transcript of tonight's show (taped on Sep. 20, 2009), please read the below:
More U. S. troops in Afghanistan?
Jeff Berkowitz: So, the answer is you’re persuadable. If [President Obama] answered those questions in a good way, in a way that is persuasive to you- gave you the information, you’re going with President Obama, additional troops for Afghanistan.
David Hoffman [U. S. Senate Candidate in the 2010 Democratic Primary]: I am persuadable but I’m not promising that I would because I think that we need to be hesitant before we put in our troops anywhere and before we increase the number of troops. And, taking the surge rationale from Iraq and applying it to Afghanistan as if it is the exact same situation, I don’t believe is correct. I am not automatically against increasing the number of troops—
The Surge in Iraq?
Jeff Berkowitz: Would you have voted for the surge in Iraq when it came up?
David Hoffman: I think that was the right answer at that time. I mean once you’re in- and given that situation at that time, I do think that was the right move.
Jeff Berkowitz: So you disagree with now President Obama on that…
David Hoffman: …I think the Surge showed that putting more troops in-- in the right situation—allows us to bring our troops back at home more quickly and safely
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NAFTA and CAFTA
Jeff Berkowitz: But, with that provision, you would have supported NAFTA at the time.
David Hoffman: I would have supported it at the time. I think we need more enforcement now.
Jeff Berkowitz: CAFTA, Central American Free Trade Agreement, you would have supported that?
David Hoffman: Same thing. I feel that opening up our markets is good for American business and therefore good for American workers, but we need to make sure that the rules are being enforced properly.
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Card Check, good or bad for democracy in the workplace?
Jeff Berkowitz: Card Check, yes or no?
David Hoffman: I am in favor of Card Check because I am in favor of more democracy in the workplace.
Jeff Berkowitz: You think card check gives you democracy? It takes something, the …secret ballot and makes it open. So, you know the example that is given, the burly [union] guy stands at the door and says, “You gonna go with us or not? And, if you say not, you won’t sign his little card—that’s not exactly the secret ballot that we have in the United States—people say that [secret ballot] is the bulwark of democracy and you want to give that up and say [that is] for democratic reasons…?
David Hoffman: I think there have been abuses both ways. There could be abuses on the card check thing, but there have been abuses with regard to the secret ballot…I don’t see why you can’t have both or options for both. I would like to see the situation where there are enforcement provisions both with regard to the secret ballot and enforcement provisions with regard to Card Check but I tell you what, theoretically both can be good about figuring out the will of the workers and that’s what this should be about. But, ruling out Card Check because we are scared about the will of the workers writing things down- I don’t agree with.
Disclosing tax returns and Hoffman’s net worth
Jeff Berkowitz: If somebody says, I want to see your tax returns, do that?
David Hoffman: I don’t have a problem with that.
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Jeff Berkowitz: …Your net worth is?
David Hoffman: I don’t know approximately what it is, but I will be—
Jeff Berkowitz: $500,000? One million? Two million? Give me a ballpark.
David Hoffman: Well, it’s over a million dollars but it’s not anywhere close to where [U. S. Senate Candidate] Giannoulias numbers are. I am not going to have the same kind of resources that he has.
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Giannoulias’ family bank loans and alleged mob ties
Jeff Berkowitz: Alexi Giannoulias, you know [his] family bank, Broadway Bank made those loans—people say there are mob ties [based on those loans], what do you say about those loans that were made by Alexi Giannoulias’ family bank.
David Hoffman: Right, I am talking about myself here. I think every candidate-
Jeff Berkowitz: Well, yes or no, is that a concern? You’re a reformer. Should people look at that?
David Hoffman: …We should turn the page on the corrupt politics and cozy relationships of the past. We need to nominate a candidate who doesn’t have ties to those things. Every candidate should make their case based on that standard. I’m going to make that case.
Jeff Berkowitz: Are you saying Giannoulias has mob ties?
David Hoffman: I’m making the case based on me. I think every candidate should have to—
Giannoulias handling, as State Treasurer, of privately invested funds
Jeff Berkowitz: What about his handling [of privately invested funds], as State Treasurer? You know, big losses in the Bright Start fund. Should [Giannoulias] take the hit for that?
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Jeff Berkowitz: Card Check, yes or no?
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Jeff Berkowitz: So, the answer is you’re persuadable. If [President Obama] answered those questions in a good way, in a way that is persuasive to you- gave you the information, you’re going with President Obama, additional troops for Afghanistan?
David Hoffman [U. S. Senate Candidate in the 2010 Democratic Primary]: I am persuadable but I’m not promising thatI would because I think that we need to be hesitant before we put in our troops anywhere and before...
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David Hoffman: …We should turn the page on the corrupt politics and cozy relationships of the past. We need to nominate a candidate who doesn’t have ties to those things. Every candidate should make their case based on that standard. I’m going to make that case.
Jeff Berkowitz: Are you saying Giannoulias has mob ties?
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Jeff Berkowitz: But, with that provision, you would have supported NAFTA at the time?
******************************
The "Public Affairs," show featuring U. S. Senate Candidate David Hoffman (D-Chicago) is airing
(1) throughout the City of Chicago tonight, Sep. 28, at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21(CANTV, aka Chicago Access Network TV) and
(2) on cable in Aurora and surrounding areas at 7:30 pm on ACTV-10. The Aurora station, ACTV-10, aka Aurora Community Television, Comcast Cable Ch. 10, reaches all of Aurora, Bristol, Big Rock and parts of Oswego, Sandwich, Sugar Grove and Montgomery.
This evening's "Public Affairs," show is perhaps the most in-depth TV interview to date of U. S. Senate Candidate Hoffman, who previously was an Ass't U. S. Attorney (in Chicago) for seven years and most recently was known as the "very independent," Inspector General in the City of Chicago.
After graduating from Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School, Hoffman clerked for Judge Dennis Jacobs on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and was one of 27 individuals to be selected from law school graduates across the country to clerk at the U. S. Supreme Court (for Chief Justice Rehnquist). After his clerkships, U. S. Senate Candidate Hoffman (D-Chicago) worked in private practice for a year before joining the U. S. Attorney's office in Chicago. David Hoffman grew up in the Chicago Metro area and graduated from New Trier High School on Chicago's North Shore.
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For more about tonight's show, including partial transcipts and links to other transcripts and to watch the show on your computer, please go here.
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For yet another partial transcript of tonight's show (taped on Sep. 20, 2009), please read the below:
More U. S. troops in Afghanistan?
Jeff Berkowitz: So, the answer is you’re persuadable. If [President Obama] answered those questions in a good way, in a way that is persuasive to you- gave you the information, you’re going with President Obama, additional troops for Afghanistan.
David Hoffman [U. S. Senate Candidate in the 2010 Democratic Primary]: I am persuadable but I’m not promising that I would because I think that we need to be hesitant before we put in our troops anywhere and before we increase the number of troops. And, taking the surge rationale from Iraq and applying it to Afghanistan as if it is the exact same situation, I don’t believe is correct. I am not automatically against increasing the number of troops—
The Surge in Iraq?
Jeff Berkowitz: Would you have voted for the surge in Iraq when it came up?
David Hoffman: I think that was the right answer at that time. I mean once you’re in- and given that situation at that time, I do think that was the right move.
Jeff Berkowitz: So you disagree with now President Obama on that…
David Hoffman: …I think the Surge showed that putting more troops in-- in the right situation—allows us to bring our troops back at home more quickly and safely
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NAFTA and CAFTA
Jeff Berkowitz: But, with that provision, you would have supported NAFTA at the time.
David Hoffman: I would have supported it at the time. I think we need more enforcement now.
Jeff Berkowitz: CAFTA, Central American Free Trade Agreement, you would have supported that?
David Hoffman: Same thing. I feel that opening up our markets is good for American business and therefore good for American workers, but we need to make sure that the rules are being enforced properly.
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Card Check, good or bad for democracy in the workplace?
Jeff Berkowitz: Card Check, yes or no?
David Hoffman: I am in favor of Card Check because I am in favor of more democracy in the workplace.
Jeff Berkowitz: You think card check gives you democracy? It takes something, the …secret ballot and makes it open. So, you know the example that is given, the burly [union] guy stands at the door and says, “You gonna go with us or not? And, if you say not, you won’t sign his little card—that’s not exactly the secret ballot that we have in the United States—people say that [secret ballot] is the bulwark of democracy and you want to give that up and say [that is] for democratic reasons…?
David Hoffman: I think there have been abuses both ways. There could be abuses on the card check thing, but there have been abuses with regard to the secret ballot…I don’t see why you can’t have both or options for both. I would like to see the situation where there are enforcement provisions both with regard to the secret ballot and enforcement provisions with regard to Card Check but I tell you what, theoretically both can be good about figuring out the will of the workers and that’s what this should be about. But, ruling out Card Check because we are scared about the will of the workers writing things down- I don’t agree with.
Disclosing tax returns and Hoffman’s net worth
Jeff Berkowitz: If somebody says, I want to see your tax returns, do that?
David Hoffman: I don’t have a problem with that.
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Jeff Berkowitz: …Your net worth is?
David Hoffman: I don’t know approximately what it is, but I will be—
Jeff Berkowitz: $500,000? One million? Two million? Give me a ballpark.
David Hoffman: Well, it’s over a million dollars but it’s not anywhere close to where [U. S. Senate Candidate] Giannoulias numbers are. I am not going to have the same kind of resources that he has.
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Giannoulias’ family bank loans and alleged mob ties
Jeff Berkowitz: Alexi Giannoulias, you know [his] family bank, Broadway Bank made those loans—people say there are mob ties [based on those loans], what do you say about those loans that were made by Alexi Giannoulias’ family bank.
David Hoffman: Right, I am talking about myself here. I think every candidate-
Jeff Berkowitz: Well, yes or no, is that a concern? You’re a reformer. Should people look at that?
David Hoffman: …We should turn the page on the corrupt politics and cozy relationships of the past. We need to nominate a candidate who doesn’t have ties to those things. Every candidate should make their case based on that standard. I’m going to make that case.
Jeff Berkowitz: Are you saying Giannoulias has mob ties?
David Hoffman: I’m making the case based on me. I think every candidate should have to—
Giannoulias handling, as State Treasurer, of privately invested funds
Jeff Berkowitz: What about his handling [of privately invested funds], as State Treasurer? You know, big losses in the Bright Start fund. Should [Giannoulias] take the hit for that?
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